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Why I made a Game Engine for my 2D platformer (C#)

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Or, 19 minutes of pedantic complaints about other game engines which work fine 9 times out of 10.

Discord, come say hi: https://discord.gg/g9yBwWnAK7
Check out our game, PSYCRON: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368410/PSYCRON/

Opening/Credits music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpsbIq51cZ4
Background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRi28yeHNiY&list=PL0EjZKsbRahbi_1EXol-f8J3SusZaxGHk

Some links to check out if you wanna build your own game engine:
https://www.unrealengine.com/
https://unity.com/
https://godotengine.org/

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39 comments

@milasudril April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
SDL supports pixel shaders... Through your graphics API, which is OpenGL or Vulkan.
@Kaenguruu April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
When you be back?
@maddiej6296 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
As another 30-something programmer (well technically "spatial analyst", but lets not let that get in the way of a good story), that writes Python and Nim in my day job, whilst RE-LEARNING ALL of the C# I forgot in my Bachelors Degree in my 20's.........., I laughed my arse off watching this, esp. the PyGame bit (sorry PyGame...). Extremely well put together, funny, and poignant. I also loved the XNA...MonoGame reference. Keep it up! Also, subscribed. ❤
@mostlime12195 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
This makes me glad I stayed with Godot.
P.S. Godot has (almost) native C# and C++ support, you never noticed?
@saemdudde April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Love2d is like monogame but it uses lua, the main issue tho is that it doesn't support many platforms. But for me(a lua dev) its amazing 🤩
@POTATO-MASTERlol April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
when the video starts : 13:44
@kaylaa2204 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Sonic Colors Ultimate was actually made in Godot. Only big project that comes to mind.
@DonTheDevMC April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Watching this while writing my own engine
@iamarugin April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Object oriented programming is trash for games btw (speking as a programmer with the 13 years of experience). And C is not that bad.
@OfficialGoldenLeaf April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Biggest mistake here was using an engine with the name "game maker" 💀 godot for life fr
@Molla_Mahir April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I started with custom engine 😅😅
@CavElliott April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I got burned out of game dev after my most recent release now I'm making my own engine with 0 plans to use that engine to make a game.
@kinsondigital April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I can agree that making your own game engine or framework is not from the faint of heart. It takes a certain brain/person. I have built a 2D game development framework named Velaptor. It is open source and you can indeed build games with it. I personally love it but if your goal is to make a game, don't create an engine or framework.
@quantumgamer6209 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Can you use python to make a game engine IDE with C compiler to complie your python code? I am currently making a game engine in python with C/C++ game dev library but I am using the python version of the C/C++ game dev library like imgui, jolt physics engine, ogre graphics rendering engine, vulkan, bullet physics engine and other C/C++ library and I am using pygame pyglet for 2D and 3D game framework for the game engine. The game engine will be for simple 2D and complex 3D games.
@kianbautista1016 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I really think that game companies should invest in making their own game engines that’s good due to how inefficient games are nowadays that thousands of dollar hardware can barely run them…
@joeroeinski1107 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
OpenGL isn't really bad when you actually understand it. At first it seems overwhelming but once you observe the purpose of each system it comes as logical. Vulkan is much lower level (in fact, I'd call it a GPU API, not a graphics API) but still very logical with added control and verbosity. Debugging is pretty trivial with RenderDoc too, which is an invaluable tool to any graphics programmer and allows for capturing and debugging API calls and data. It's definitely not a territory for everyone, only people seriously interested in graphics programming should ever touch this stuff.
@user-wc5og3mw2q April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
cool video)
@orkhepaj April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
cause you are noob , why do all these when you can just use others work?:O
@jorisstudios6506 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
thanks for shattering my dreams :)
@Neurotypique April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Thank you for saying this about starting small and not directly aiming for a dream game! It's really shocking how many devlogs there are that starts the wrong way just because the person has not finished just a single simple game yet.

Finishing a project is a skill you have to learn! It's easy to start
@elvinauresius3303 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I have to tell you, that this video really opens up my mind. I'm very grateful to find your video, i hope that you keep making videos. I think you're really a great content creator. The fact that i almost never comment on a video, is the proof that your video is so good that i have to leave a comment for it.
@MagalyCantey April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
cool video)
@user-co1dw3lx7t April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
cool video)
@GouShin1 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
honestly use monogame and a front engine like nez or murder than you can just add whatever you actually need on top. I'm kinda leaning towards murder then using ldtk for level design.
@tortenschachtel9498 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I made a Tetris clone like 15 years ago in XNA, can i write the next Star Citizen killer yet?
@zZGzHD April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
i haven't watched the video yet but i can tell you as an ADHD monkey it is much easier to write your own engine over several months rather than spend 10 minute reading documentation. i love C and raylib.
@SharifSourour April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
There is another cool reason to develop a game engine, for learning purposes, regardless of you actually finish or use it. After attempting to make a game from scratch in college it was super insightful.
@SharifSourour April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Godot allows C# nowadays BTW.
@faelanroney9717 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
You should use godot, much better engine than game maker, plus waaaay more audio support functions
@user-sr7bv5uw6n April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Currently trying to make a system for a game and looking for best options. Unity, Unreal, etc. I have come to realized they may not be the best options for the mechanic is not a game. but will be played like one. I have some experience with C# and want to use it to build something from scratch. this was very helpful but have much more to study
@francofalconieri4840 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Ngl malloc is pretty shit, but why use objects?
@sqdtnz April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Welcome, I've also recently decided to try out MonoGame (coming from Unity). Have to """"just"""" port all my existing code into an engine that does what it needs to do (and nothing more)... Also using ECS though, which seems to be easier to get into than Unity's very verbose version...
@herrbanane April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I should write my own engine 🤪
@LeonardoTx1000 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Id like to point out that Stride Engine is also out there.
My personal recommendations are MonoGame as a 2D and 3D Framework and Stride as a 2D and 3D Game Engine, both are C# based, open source and can run with only code, no editor (optionally in Stride) if you want.
@TimeLords910 April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
i would love to make my own game engine but i doubt i have enough life times to make one
@OmegaFalcon April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
I should write my own engine!
@AnnasVirtual April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
OpenGL is not that bad it just annoying when you did something wrong and it just give you empty window
@YourEveryDayJo April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
Literally the channel and video I wanted but didn’t know I needed. This was wonderful, many thanks!
@CoderDonut April 8, 2024 - 12:53 am
This is exactly the video I was looking for! As someone who went GameMaker -- > Unity --> ? and has been debating what the optimal path forward is I think this helped me out a ton. Thank you so much for this!

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